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I just want to get your opinions. Ive been on both sides recently.
This time, I'm selling a bike. Guy #1 calls Friday. Wants to PICK IT UP for full price Saturday morning but I had stomach flu so I said I cant. He said he get back to me about Sunday. Never heard back.
Guy #2, calls Saturday, haggles price. He mentions a deposit but never gets me one as he is 3 hours away. I tried to meet him half way Sunday saving him 2 hrs, but he could not. He is still "deciding" what day works for him, many exceptions. I told him someone else wanted it for full price but haven't heard back yet and he says " yeah, yeah we both know how that goes though....."
Guy #1 call back and wants it today for full price. He will meet RIGHT NOW.
Guy #2- Freaks out, thought it was his....
What do you think? People want things HELD but no money has been exchanged, no in person agreements, nothing
Who gets it in your opinion?
This time, I'm selling a bike. Guy #1 calls Friday. Wants to PICK IT UP for full price Saturday morning but I had stomach flu so I said I cant. He said he get back to me about Sunday. Never heard back.
Guy #2, calls Saturday, haggles price. He mentions a deposit but never gets me one as he is 3 hours away. I tried to meet him half way Sunday saving him 2 hrs, but he could not. He is still "deciding" what day works for him, many exceptions. I told him someone else wanted it for full price but haven't heard back yet and he says " yeah, yeah we both know how that goes though....."
Guy #1 call back and wants it today for full price. He will meet RIGHT NOW.
Guy #2- Freaks out, thought it was his....
What do you think? People want things HELD but no money has been exchanged, no in person agreements, nothing
Who gets it in your opinion?
The Shop
"We both know how that goes" sometimes actually goes the way you wanted it to.
Tell Guy #2 it wasnt meant to be. Thats what i tell myself when a deal doenst work out for one reason or another.
I used to honor verbal agreements on CL stuff, but after getting stood up, jacked around, and given every sob story in the book, it's cash talks, BS walks at this point. The worst was an a-hole that looked at my bike for better than an hour. We tore it partway down so he could see everything. He then tells me that "I got ahold of another guy whose bike was "never raced" and I want to look at it first. I explained the fallacy of the "never raced" BS but he insisted. I get a call later that night saying he bought the other one. Fine. I had another buyer anyway. But the kicker is I start getting emails from this brain surgeon wanting setup advice. Yeah right, waste my time, buy someone else's bike, then ask for free advice from me...F off.
Pit Row
I had a guy who was going to make the 2 hr drive the next day, the guy who was local came and got it, the 2hr guy freeks out!! I told him to suck it. Ad says will not hold bike. I told him, he should have done what I do, and offer to papal $50 non refundable to hold it just to firm up the deal.
Never turn away a cash buyer because your waiting for someone else to show up. Cuz they almost always dont.
Moral of he story is If you give someone your WORD, stick to it..
or at very least communicate what's going on with the other party involved.
After being stood up by the guy thats "on his way" about 5 times you're totally over it and have no remorse lol
When I sold my CR, I had 5-6 people lined up (I sold it too cheap and without that new fangled 2 stroke fanboy tax). First guy I met tried to haggle, told him I was firm and would take my chances with the other potential buyers since it had been listed for 24 hrs. He busted out a stack of cash at that point. I do believe in a little buyer/seller etiquette and messaged each other potential buyer so they weren't left hanging.
People suck at haggling. Its amazing how many friends or gloveboxes just happen to have that extra bit of cash they wanted to joo off the price of the item.
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